Unit 5 Vocabulary

Any of the seven large landmasses into which Earth is divided

• continent

• faults

• magma

• lava

Cracks in the Earth caused by the movement of its plates

• continent

• faults

• magma

• lava

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Molten rock inside the Earth

• continent

• faults

• magma

• lava

Molten rock at and on the surface of Earth

• continent

• faults

• magma

• lava

A ridge under the ocean that spreads out sideways as magma wells up along its center

• seismic Wave

• richter scale

• spreading ridge

• subduction zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An area where two plates collide and one slips under the other, forming volcanoes & deep trenches

• seismic Wave

• richter scale

• spreading ridge

• subduction zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

An underground shockwave that travels outward from the focus of an Earthquake

• seismic Wave

• richter scale

• spreading ridge

• subduction zone

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

A scale that rates Earthquakes from 1 to 10, based on the power of the vibrations that travel through the ground when the Earthquake occurs

• seismic Wave

• richter scale

• spreading ridge

• subduction zone

A scale that rates Earthquakes from I to XII based on the effects of the shaking and the damage caused

• mountain range

• fossil

• strata

• mercalli scale

A chain, or line, of mountains connected together

• mountain range

• fossil

• strata

• mercalli scale